Re: “Corrie to blame for putting herself in harm’s way,” Oct. 3 letter to the editor.

I was stunned by letter-writer Catherine Durkin Robinson’s callousness in referring to Rachel Corrie as “squashed like a bug.” But then again it makes perfect sense, since she believes Rachel Corrie went to the Gaza Strip to cause “mischief,” as if her intent was prank phone calls rather than to act on a deeply felt commitment to protect Palestinian homes from Israeli bulldozers. Read more…

Thank you, Denver Post, for the story about the play about Rachel Corrie, the young woman run down by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the destruction of a Palestinian home. It is disturbing to learn about the lengths to which the playwright and director had to go to get the play on stage here in Denver. It makes me proud of Denver, though, that it is possible to see the play here, whereas the theater owners in New York ran away from it as too controversial. Read more…

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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